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Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent, being about 40% larger than Europe, and has an area of 14,200,000 km 2 (5,500,000 sq mi). Most of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, with an average thickness of 1.9 km (1.2 mi).
Ten countries on mainland North America [Note 10] and twelve countries on mainland South America. An overseas department and region of France, located on mainland South America. 3 Antarctica: 12,272,800 [Note 11] 4,738,600 None: 7 countries have made 7 territorial claims. All territorial claims in Antarctica are in abeyance under the Antarctic ...
Southern Asia [c] 1,989,452,478: 25.2% 1.32% 9 0 0 0 Eastern Asia: 1,663,696,923: 21.0% 0.57% 5 1 0 2 Sub-Saharan Africa [d] 1,137,938,708: 14.4% N/A 48 1 1 4 South-eastern Asia: 675,796,065: 8.5% 1.20% 11 0 0 0 Latin America and the Caribbean [e] 656,098,097: 8.30% N/A 33 0 7 12 Eastern Africa [f] 461,141,845: 5.8% 2.89% 18 1 0 4 South America ...
East Antarctica is significantly larger than West Antarctica, and similarly remains widely unexplored in terms of its volcanic potential. While there are some indications that there is volcanic activity under the East Antarctic Ice Sheet , there is not a significant amount of present information on the subject.
America Antarctica ... Europe to be larger (at least in width) than the other two continents: ... the coast of South America much farther south than Asia was known ...
North America. Sprawling across ... 972,000 square kilometers (375,000 square miles) – which makes it larger than all but 29 of the United Nations’ member states. ... Antarctica. The bottom ...
It contains all or parts of five continents [1] (the whole of Antarctica, the whole of Australia, about 90% of South America, about one-third of Africa, and some islands off the continental mainland of Asia) and four oceans (the whole Southern Ocean, the majority of the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic Ocean, and the South Pacific Ocean), as ...
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